The winner of the press-award for photography was Belgian photographer Colin Delfosse with a serie on M23 fighters in Northern-Kivu.

He won the Sony award with the same serie before, and the Tijd did publish his work but I don’t know if they assigned him for his travels.

French speaking media are more objektive and write about all winners, like l’Avenir, RTL and DH.
What de Tijd and Trends/Knack do with the protest outside the Belfius building during the Award ceremony is ok.

They do mention the protest of Belfius unionists criticizing freedom of speech for Belfius employees.

As the winner of the 2011 Belfius Award on photography I was asked to help judging the photography category and to assist the final judging yesterday.

A great experience and the judging really was a tough job. Reading, listening and watching all those news-items. Serious discussion on some categories, but I’m quite happy with the winners. Congratulations!

The judges saw the level of journalism being quite high, but ask all journalists to please send more work next year.

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2 thoughts on “And the Belgian Belfius press-awards are won by….”

I noticed the same thing with the winners just mentioning themselves… strange. Thank you for listing all of them up here Sander.
And for next year maybe suggest the people that make/built the online submission platform to make it more user friendly and clear so we can submit properly… it really didn’t work well for the photography part of it or I didn’t get how to do it properly of course, but still… feels like waisted opportunities to me.